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• Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Blessing, Love Is, Alive

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• What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

  Iris Murdoch

  School, Taught, Imagine

  Iris Murdoch (1956). “The flight from the enchanter”, Viking Pr

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• Some people think that macrobiotic philosophy is no more than the teaching of a diet - the eating of brown rice, carrots, and gomashio (sesame salt), others imagine that it is summed up in the statement, "Don't eat cake and sugar." How far from the truth!

  George Ohsawa

  Philosophy, Teaching, Thinking

  "Essential Ohsawa: From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics". Book edited by Carl Ferré and Herman Aihara, p. 82, 1994.

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• The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.

  Ilana Mercer

  Nice, Men, Branches

  "Quacking Over Ducksters As Freedoms Go Poof". www.wnd.com. January 3, 2014.

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• [On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.

  Rebecca West

  Believe, Ocean, Ponds

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.165, Open Road Media

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• The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others.

  John Calvin

  Yield, People, Ignorant

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.32, Baker Books

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• I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon...Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.

  Fred Hoyle

  Believe, Moon, Financial

  "Galaxies, Nuclei, and Quasars". Book by Fred Hoyle, 1965.

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• Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend the bounds of a single human lifetime!

  Kate Morton

  Events, Might, Remember

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Warrior, Past, Men

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?

  John Buchan

  Sea, People, Mastery

  John Buchan (2016). “SIR EDWARD LEITHEN Complete Collection – 6 Titles in One Premium Edition (Mystery & Thriller Series): The Power-House, John Macnab, The Dancing Floor, The Gap in the Curtain, Sick Heart River & Sing a Song of Sixpence”, p.30, e-artnow

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• Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Cat, Thinking, Years

  "The World as Will and Representation". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819.

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• A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Action, Imagine

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• I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

  Fritz Todt

  Effort, Imagine, Natural

  "Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling". Book by David E. Nye, p. 227, 2000.

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• I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to admit that we simply don't know for sure.

  David Greenberg

  War, Iraq, Imagine

  "Making Presidential History". Online chat with David Greenberg, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.

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• If you dream you've got to dream that it's going to happen. Remember that. If you dream you have to imagine that it will actually happen.

  Morgan Freeman

  Dream, Remember, Imagine

  "Morgan Freeman Talks Lucky Number Slevin". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. March 31, 2006.

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• A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

  George William Russell

  Blow, Men, Wind

  George William Russell (1920). “The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government”

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• But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have universal form? Would it not be a staggering vanity to imagine that He can manifest Himself only in the form that is appropriate to this particular, not very important planet?

  John Wyndham

  Vanity, Important, Sun

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• There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts and cannot put one word after another and imagine that I have suffered a small stroke, leaving me apparently undamaged but actually aphasic.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Leaving, Pieces

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.7, Zola Books

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• When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.

  Andrea Hirata

  Sports, Children, News

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• Imagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth.

  Daniel Quinn

  Community, Earth, Care

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• Imagine that someone said or did something cruel to you, but that you did not react in any way whatsoever – you did not become upset, resentful or even ruffled. You simply observed that this person was saying or doing something cruel, as though you were calmly observing the scene in a movie. You simply would not be stressed by what would appear to others to be a highly stressful encounter. Stress and cruelty affect us as profoundly as they do only because we react to them resentfully.

  Roy Masters

  Stress, Upset, Encounters

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• We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Sunset, Sleep

  Henry David Thoreau (1973). “Winter: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”

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• I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment.

  John Cage

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1952.

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• I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent and everyone treated you as though you were stupid and no one tried to teach you anything -- the sort of deep subliminal rage that would get going in you. But then once it gets going, you make a strength out of what you know is your weakness, which is that you are undeveloped.

  Martin Amis

  Stupid, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.

  Eric Schmidt

  Internet, Environment, Imagine

  "Google's Eric Schmidt Talks to Charlie Rose". Businessweek, September 23, 2010.

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